Glenn Sterle (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

The bill is going to be looked at in 2007 in terms of the exemptions if the state parliament puts in the road freight bills in WA, which it will. But what is the guarantee, with the threat of the independent contractors association pulling support for the bill, that we will not be driven down to the lowest common denominator—‘we’ being dependent contractors? I know you did say that we will review it and look at it but, and you have to forgive my cynicism, that could lead to us going backwards—‘us’ being owner-drivers in New South Wales and Victoria. Minister, can you categorically confirm that that will be the case?